Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Contracts

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Don't repeat yourself (DRY) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Don't repeat yourself (DRY) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 579 698
Rank change year-on-year +71 +119 +111
Contract jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) 12 3 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.007% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.008% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 16
10th Percentile £500 - £443
25th Percentile £538 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £200 £650
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -69.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £663 - £675
90th Percentile £725 - £744
UK excluding London median daily rate - £200 £650
% change year-on-year - -69.23% +32.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY) falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY).

Daily rate trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY).

Hourly rate trend for Don't repeat yourself (DRY) in the UK

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Don't repeat yourself (DRY) within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +65 11 £600 +200.00% 109
London - 11 £600 - 22
Work from Home +44 4 £600 +200.00% 30

Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) GitHub
1 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (33.33%) Sentry
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
4 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (33.33%) Redis
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 3 (25.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Django Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
4 1 (8.33%) iOS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) REST
2 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 6 (50.00%) React
3 4 (33.33%) Django
3 4 (33.33%) Express.js
4 3 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 2 (16.67%) gRPC
5 2 (16.67%) Pyramid
5 2 (16.67%) SOAP
5 2 (16.67%) Spring
5 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (8.33%) Kafka
6 1 (8.33%) RESTful
6 1 (8.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) SOLID
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Microservices
4 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
5 5 (41.67%) SDLC
6 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (33.33%) Functional Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Pair Programming
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) BDD
7 3 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Python
3 6 (50.00%) C#
4 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) Go
5 3 (25.00%) Java
5 3 (25.00%) Scala
6 1 (8.33%) Bicep
6 1 (8.33%) Objective-C
6 1 (8.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Apple